Psychology /
Carole Wade, Dominican University of California, Carol Tavris, Maryanne Garry, Victoria University of Wellington.
- Eleventh edition.
- xx, 615 [76] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. What Is Psychology? -- 2. How Psychologists Do Research -- 3. Genes, Evolution, and Environment -- 4. The Brain and Nervous System -- 5. Body Rhythms and Mental States -- 6. Sensation and Perception -- 7. Learning and Conditioning -- 9. Thinking and Intelligence -- 10. Memory -- 11. Emotion, Stress, and Health -- 12. Motivation -- 13. Development Over the Life Span -- 14. Theories of Personality -- 15. Psychological Disorders -- 16. Approaches to Treatment and Therapy -- -- What Is Psychology? -- Psychology, Pseudoscience, and Popular Opinion -- Thinking Critically and Creatively about Psychology -- Psychology's Past: From the Armchair to the -- Laboratory -- Psychology's Present: The Four Perspectives of -- Psychological Science -- What Psychologists Do -- How Psychologists Do Research -- What Makes Psychological Research Scientific? -- Descriptive Studies: Establishing the Facts -- Correlational Studies: Looking for Relationships -- Experiments: Hunting for Causes 49 -- Evaluating the Findings -- Keeping the Enterprise Ethical -- Genes, Evolution, and Environment -- Unlocking the Secrets of Genes -- The Genetics of Similarity -- Our Human Heritage: Courtship and Mating -- The Genetics of Difference -- Our Human Diversity: The Case of Intelligence -- The Brain and Nervous System -- The Nervous System: A Basic Blueprint -- Communication in the Nervous System -- Mapping the Brain -- A Tour through the Brain -- The Two Hemispheres of the Brain -- The Flexible Brain -- Body Rhythms and Mental States -- Biological Rhythms: The Tides of Experience -- The Rhythms of Sleep -- Exploring the Dream World -- The Riddle of Hypnosis -- Consciousness-Altering Drugs -- Sensation and Perception -- Our Sensational Senses -- Vision -- Hearing -- Other Senses -- Perceptual Powers: Origins and Influences -- Learning and Conditioning -- Classical Conditioning -- Classical Conditioning in Real Life -- Operant Conditioning -- Principles of Operant Conditioning -- Operant Conditioning in Real Life -- Learning and the Mind -- Chapter8: Behavior in Social and Cultural Context -- Roles and Rules -- Social Influences on Beliefs and Behavior -- Individuals in Groups -- Us versus Them: Group Identity -- Group Conflict and Prejudice -- The Question of Human Nature -- Thinking and Intelligence -- Thought: Using What We Know -- Reasoning Rationally -- Barriers to Reasoning Rationally -- Measuring Intelligence: The Psychometric Approach -- Dissecting Intelligence: The Cognitive Approach -- Animal Minds -- Memory -- Reconstructing the Past -- Memory and the Power of Suggestion -- In Pursuit of Memory -- The Three-Box Model of Memory -- The Biology of Memory -- How We Remember -- Why We Forget 3 -- Autobiographical Memories -- Emotion, Stress, and Health -- The Nature of Emotion -- Emotion and Culture -- The Nature of Stress -- Stress and Emotion -- Coping with Stress -- Motivation -- The Hungry Animal: Motives to Eat -- The Social Animal: Motives to Love -- The Erotic Animal: Motives for Sex -- The Competent Animal: Motives to Achieve -- Development Over the Life Span -- From Conception through the First Year -- Cognitive Development -- Moral Development -- Gender Development -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- The Wellsprings of Resilience -- Theories of Personality -- Psychodynamic Theories of Personality -- The Modern Study of Personality -- Genetic Influences on Personality -- Environmental Influences on Personality -- Cultural Influences on Personality -- The Inner Experience -- Psychological Disorders -- Diagnosing Mental Disorders -- Anxiety Disorders -- Mood Disorders -- Personality Disorders -- Drug Abuse and Addiction -- Dissociative Identity Disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Approaches to Treatment and Therapy -- Biological Treatments for Mental Disorders -- Major Schools of Psychotherapy -- Evaluating Psychotherapy -- The Value and Values of Psychotherapy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
"A comprehensive introduction to the field, Psychology, 11/e emphasizes the importance of critical thinking skills crucial to students' success in college and later in life. Written with liveliness, warmth, and clarity, the updated edition continues its tradition of integrating gender, culture, and ethnicity throughout the text."--Publisher's website.